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Former State DOT Official Guilty Of Taking Bribes In Multimillion Dollar Scheme Won’t See Prison

A former state DOT official has pled guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for awarding construction and maintenance contracts. Last week a judge sentenced the former official to house arrest, community service, and a small fine.

Nicholas Martino was Assistant District Executive in PennDOT’s District Six for years. He accepted personal payments from an as-yet unnamed PennDOT contractor. In return he awarded them contracts, told inspectors to approve their work even when there were problems, and even looked the other way when the contractor didn’t do the work they were hired for. When an inspector refused to sign off on work that hadn’t been completed, he had the inspector fired.

“This state employee played with taxpayer money in order to get a payout for himself,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. “He accepted bribes and knowingly allowed a contractor to not perform their work under their contract with state government.”

Martino is not the only former PennDOT employee to have corruption, bribery, or fraud charges brought against him. Since 2013, investigators have been charging and sentencing a steady stream of DOT inspectors, DOT managers, and contractors involved in multimillion-dollar fraud and bribery schemes. Martino was only charged after a cooperating witness gave evidence against him.

After pleading guilty to ‘conflict of interest – restricted activities,’ Martino was sentenced to between 9 and 23 months of home incarceration, 50 hours of community service, and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.

Try the dot on staten island new york, they put trucks out of service for dumb things like lights, they call a tow truck and tow truck picks and dropps the truck next exit which is less than half a mile, price $900 tell me they don’t get some money out of that? Where is the f.b.i ? They get about 20-40 trucks a day! That’s right a day!

Whether or not Judge is in on this…he knows better not tangle with organized crime. Appearances are everyone including AG has their fingers in this pot or someone would really(come on now, really?) pay for crimes against the republic.
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pay odds rip offs. I worked for a small company. the owner got a contract withe the state of ill . He furnished trucks to haul asphault. It was my job to take an envelope with cash to the inspector every monday morning. If I didn’t have it our loads were rejected. We returned to the plant. Did nothing but sit there until the envelope was brought to me and we returned to the job site. I never once hid giving it to the state inspector . Then again Ill is more corrupt than DC is.